Yakubu Dogara, has described as unimaginable, the scale of corruption so far uncovered by anti-graft agencies. At a meeting with newspaper editors in Abuja, on Saturday, the speaker of the House of Reps said he was shocked by the monumental looting of the treasury in the past, citing the discovery of billions of looted fund buried in a farm in Abuja.
He explained that operatives of anti-graft agencies had been busy moving the cash out of the farm.
Dogara said he had never heard of such impunity in which people “stole for the sake of stealing,” decrying the latest antics of suspected looters to bury their loot in farmland.
“But, if I am just arrested, charged to court and maybe some money recovered from me and, at the end of the day, nothing happens, a lot of people may not be deterred in the future from engaging in corrupt practices.
“If you look at the massive looting of the treasury (actually, I have been in government for quite some time), I never could have imagined the scale of corruption that we are witnessing right now, where people took lot of money running into billions and buried them in farms.
“As we are speaking now, they are recovering monies from someone’s farm somewhere around Abuja. It is very unfortunate where people stole money just for the sake of stealing,” he said.
While acknowledging the criticism against the anti-graft agencies on the pace of work, Dogara noted that the agencies appeared overwhelmed by the volume of challenges arising from the current war.
Nonetheless, he said the agencies should do the needful so as to remain on top of its game.
“If you were the one in charge of fighting corruption, you would have even been shocked by the scale of the problem. I guess part of the problem we have is that the scale of the problem far outweighs the anticipation of the agencies. So, if care is not taken, we may not get things right in the process. They will have to keep their heads level to be able to be in charge of the fight and to do it effectively.”
Source: Nigerian Tribune
*So if they found the money,who is the owner?
Na wa!
ReplyDeleteLies!!....
ReplyDeleteabeg collect Kiss's,no mind them.
DeleteTrue
DeleteJust read what you typed.Some of you make me so ashamed to be a Nigerian.pls.influence your kids alone with your brand of stupidity.
DeleteBuhari will be the owner na Stella. So the only corruption in Nigeria is stealing government funds abi?
ReplyDeleteAnd what have they done so far to the people that looted this country dry and what of the money they recovered from them, is their any project currently going on in Nigeria? How many of them are in prison?. How were they able to know that there is money buried there and who is the owner? All of them should better die include the daft president all join so that youths can take over. It's a year already and there is nothing they can proudly say they did. All of you should die die die. I am sending my sniper to us you all in your dreams.
ReplyDeleteDIE DIE DIE
ALL OF YOU ALL THAT LOOTED THIS COUNTRY DRY. ALL OF YOU INCLUDING YOUR GENERATIONS SHOULD JUST DIE.
LMAO.
DeleteBuh you don't need to reel out all these curses nau.
Nigeria justice system is the problem
DeleteWhose farmland ehhhhhhhhh???
ReplyDeleteXP will be like, I had Sunday brunch there o, hmmm, even helped to dig d pits d money was hidden, they dashed me some I won't lie, I bought a berkin bag & paid my rent!
DeleteI wish I found it 😆
DeleteNa wa ooh
ReplyDeletePictures or I don't believe
ReplyDeleteEFCC be deceiving people from way back.
Story for the gods.
ReplyDeleteHim and his Boss Buhari just want to silence every powerful voice of dissent in the country.
Which Nigerian alive is more corrupt than Jagaban, Buhari 's right hand man?
Omg. This is not nice atall
ReplyDeleteLies!!! Pictures or nothing abeg
ReplyDeleteIt's a super sstory...
ReplyDeleteHa naija our country, we have reached the point where we are harvesting dollars
ReplyDeleteAll this talk of loot Bn hidden on abandoned properties is beginning to affect me.
ReplyDeleteThere is one empty land I see on my way to and fro school. Big land.
Something tells me there is something on that land.
And My instincts hardly fail me.
So everyday I pass,I stare at this land. Picturing myself in there with a big hoe.
Let's go digging then.
DeleteWhose farm? Why giving little details or is it for political uplifting of this government? Just wondering
ReplyDeleteSTELLA, GOOD QUESTION "WHO IS THE THIEF?"
ReplyDeleteDOGARA SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT HE IS PART OF THE PROBLEM IF HE MAKES STATEMENTS LIKE THIS WITHOUT SPECIFICS ON THOSE INVOLVED.
IT WILL BE FAIR FOR ME TO ASSUME THAT THE THEIF IS AN APC MEMBER OTHERWISE FGN/EFFC WILL BE EVERYWHERE FLASHING NAMES AND EVEN ADDING SALT AND PEPPER TO THE WHOLE THING.
By the way, where is Lai Mohammed?
Lai has Ben sacked I think...
Delete*been...
DeleteBuhari people are hungry. the money you collected, nothing yet. Stop deceiving people with this corruption stand.
ReplyDeleteDogara am sure you are now enjoying APC kindness
He's talking rubbish.
ReplyDeletePublish names of looters!
ReplyDeleteAlways hyping. Una fit detect money underground but cannot detect bomb .
Why didn't i discover the money🙈
ReplyDeleteso who owns the farm where the money was found.That is the question Nigerians are suppose to be asking this people.
ReplyDeleteI Hate this nigerian government....they just like deceiving us...if you say you found money in a farm....there should be pictures and video to prove that...your words are not enough.....SIMPLE...AYO.....
ReplyDeleteNa lie joor! Which farm?The person that discovered the money doesn't need money abi?Was he or she trying to plant or harvest cassava when the money was discovered?Tugbuonu onwe unu n'uga there!
ReplyDeleteI no believe this story until i see pictures abeg.
ReplyDeleteAnd the question still remain,s what has this government done with all the said money recovered! I am beginning to believe all na noise and propaganda!
ReplyDeletePicture or I don't believe it
ReplyDeleteFor once at least show us when efcc was digging the money from the farm
ReplyDeletewho gave the tip off or the farm owner who stumbled on the big hole filled
with money in his farm and who he alerted. Publish the name of the owner
and his accomplices. We know this government is working it's the evidence of the
work that remains to be seen.